Man charged in fatal hit-and-run of 72-year-old woman

A 30-year-old man has been charged in connection with a fatal hit-and-run accident that killed a 72-year-old woman in Raleigh last week.

Luis Hernandez Pacheco has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving death/injury in the collision that killed Melinda Guess as she attempted to cross Austin Peay near Lakehurst Drive on April 9.

Police said after Guess was hit, Pacheco fled the scene in a 2004 Audi. A witness followed Pacheco and called police and gave the the license tag information of the car. Police found the Audi burned on Wales Avenue and Davis Circle.

Pacheco was arrested after a woman called police and reported that the defendant told her to report the Audi as stolen. The woman told police that Pacheco was the only person that she knows to drive the car. The woman picked Pacheo out of a police photo line-up as the person who drove the car on April 9.

Pacheo was also cited for duty to give information and render aid, having no drivers license and no car insurance.